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On the purpose of examinations | Kate S. Owens
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Kate S. Owens. Skip to primary content. On the purpose of examinations. February 25, 2014. I have just finished the second round of mid-semester exams in my calculus courses. As I may have mentioned before, I’m teaching two sections of “Calculus I” using a traditional grading scheme and one section of “Calculus II” using standards based grading. Both courses encountered their tests last week and had them returned with feedback this week. While grading, I mentioned the following on Twitter:. If you know h...
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Student collision mini-projects from my summer 2013 comp-phys course | Science Learnification
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Teaching and learning in the sciences with a focus on physics education research (PER) from the trenches. Larr; Pre-class homework completion rates in my first-year courses. Mathematica vs. Python in my Computational Physics course. Student collision mini-projects from my summer 2013 comp-phys course. October 3, 2013. The last course that I taught at UFV before taking a job at UBC was an online Computation Physics course. I previously posted. October 10, 2013 at 7:41 am. October 10, 2013 at 8:15 am.
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Learning Catalytics workflow | Science Learnification
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Teaching and learning in the sciences with a focus on physics education research (PER) from the trenches. I finally got to meet my students from the international college. October 14, 2014. Disclosure: my colleague, Georg Rieger, and I are currently in the process of securing post-doc funding to evaluate the effectiveness of Learning Catalytics and that position would be paid in part by Pearson, who owns Learning Catalytics. A whole lotta devices! Honestly, the first two points make it so that I would fa...
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Learning Before Class Strategies Part 2.5: Types of Video Lectures | Science Learnification
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Teaching and learning in the sciences with a focus on physics education research (PER) from the trenches. Larr; Homework Presentation Rubric V1. This was my last year to teach Gauss’ Law early in the course. Learning Before Class Strategies Part 2.5: Types of Video Lectures. February 6, 2012. A screen capture of a smartPhysics multimedia lesson. Focused on some common types of assignments/assessments that you can use. I also had a quick update. Types of Video Lectures. 8211; These are recordings of your ...
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75 vs. 150 | Science Learnification
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Teaching and learning in the sciences with a focus on physics education research (PER) from the trenches. Larr; Mathematica vs. Python in my Computational Physics course. Help me figure out which article to write. September 16, 2013. To me, there are two main possible models for the physics courses in this program:. Rethink the space completely and have a studio or SCALE-UP. What do you think about trying to argue between these two numbers? Have you taught similar sizes and can offer your perspective?
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Student collision mini-projects from my fall comp-phys course | Science Learnification
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Teaching and learning in the sciences with a focus on physics education research (PER) from the trenches. Larr; Looking at the number of drafts submitted for project reports in the Advanced Lab. Reflecting on what I have read so far in John C. Bean’s “Engaging Ideas”. Student collision mini-projects from my fall comp-phys course. June 3, 2013. The students seemed much more willing to take on larger challenges with less support. The students had a lot more ownership of the learning task. Below is a playli...
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Thales’ triangles: big mistake or little mistake?
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Teaching and doing mathematics in a liberal arts context. Exploring the meaning of life. Occasionally posting chronicles and observations. Thursday, February 27, 2014. Big mistake or little mistake? One of my friends shared this picture on Facebook—. Which came via mathtricks.org. The teacher is doing something rather sophisticated—solving a more general problem—which is what makes it easy to trip up on the apparent simplicity of this question. Consider the following similar questions:. In the case of th...
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Un peu de math...: February 2013
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Un peu de math. My name is Vince Knight and I'm a lecturer in Operational Research at Cardiff University with interests in game theory and queueing theory. I'll be using this blog to post about various things mainly including math and software. www.vincent-knight.com. Sunday, 10 February 2013. Creating inclusive mathematics notes using pandoc. As a math teacher there's not much we can do about distributing pdfs made with LaTeX apart from making the LaTeX code itself available. It started taking me a whil...
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Learning Goals | mathflip
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Introduction and Project Overview. What does it mean to flip a classroom? August 29, 2013 · 11:45 pm. There are two aspects to our research project. The primary one is to investigate the ways students use their textbooks to help them learn mathematics. The secondary one is to see how students do this in a flipped classroom and examine the ways the flipped nature appears to influence the way they learn. This will be a fairly standard second-semester calculus class. We’re using the Hughes-Hallett (et&#...
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Thales’ triangles: standards for analysis
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Teaching and doing mathematics in a liberal arts context. Exploring the meaning of life. Occasionally posting chronicles and observations. Monday, August 18, 2014. Writing standards for a proof-based class is a different beast than for introductory calculus. In my last post. While considering these questions, I determined that there are six standards. I want students to actively develop during the semester, and on which I want to be giving targeted feedback. These skills will be grounded in the conte...